Information governance

Archive
14 May 2012

Record access by 2015 a ‘tall order’

The government's pledge to give all patients access to their electronic health records by October 2015 is a “tall order”
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Information Commissioner's Office
13 April 2012

South London has four data ‘near misses’

Employees at South London Healthcare NHS Trust have breached the Data Protection Act four times in the past year, once
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19 April 2011

GPs advised: do IG Toolkit

GP representatives have advised GP practices to complete NHS Connecting for Health’s Information Governance Toolkit, despite concerns about its suitability
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13 April 2011

IG ‘major block’ on IT projects

Information governance is a major stumbling block to IT innovation and service integration, a Westminster Health Forum heard this week.
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15 March 2011

BMA tells Lansley to halt revolution

The British Medical Association has called for the government to stop its plans for a massive reorganisation of the NHS
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15 February 2011

IG deadline extended by IT problems

The deadline for organisations to complete their information governance training via NHS Connecting for Health’s Information Governance Training Tool has
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10 January 2011

NHS trusts report unlawful record views

Freedom of Information requests to NHS trusts across Yorkshire have revealed that a third have caught staff unlawfully accessing private
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22 September 2010

BMA Scotland demands portal security

The BMA in Scotland is calling for tighter controls on access to shared record information as the Scottish Parliament prepares
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1 June 2010

NHS tops ICO list of data breaches

The NHS has been the source of almost a third of the data breaches reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office
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6 May 2010

MH records found in Asda car park

A hospital worker at Bellsydke Hospital in Scotland has been suspended after medical records belonging to patients at a secure
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